Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13729 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2001 10:31:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO murphys-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.225) by extortion.plus.net with SMTP; 3 Jan 2001 10:31:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 6491 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2001 10:34:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by murphys with SMTP; 3 Jan 2001 10:34:30 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Dl9G-0000ke-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:28:02 +0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from [213.2.16.106] (helo=rsgb.org.uk) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Dl9C-0000kZ-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:27:59 +0000 Received: from miked by rsgb.org.uk with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.8.7.5.R) for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:15:36 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 From: "Mike Dennison" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:15:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: LF: RE: Freq stability Message-ID: <3A52FBC4.8474.3B2023@localhost> In-reply-to: <65AECDF1F89AD411900400508BFC869F0D74CA@pdw-mail-1.dera.gov.uk> X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Return-Path: miked@mail.rsgbhq Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: G4JNT wrote: > QRSS ( 'SLOWCW', why invent meaningless Q codes for the sake of it) As the 'inventor' of this term, I feel some explanation is called for. 'Slow CW' has tended to mean a few words per minute as used for Morse practice. We used to say 'extremely slow CW' which was rather long. The QRP people use QRPP for extremely low power, so QRSS was suggested to make the term shorter. More recently, it has come to mean linear Morse rather than the split frequency form (such as DFCW), and the term VCW - visual CW - was suggested by ON7YD to cover all types of Morse decoded by eye. In any case, use whatever term is the most useful so long as it is not ambiguous. 73 Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT) http://www.lf.thersgb.net